What's on
This autumn there are numerous events and other organised activities going on both at the Church and elsewhere.
EARLY SERVICE BBQ
A date for your diary! There will be an Early Service BBQ on Saturday 4th September beginning at 12.30 p.m. in the church garden. This is a chance to catch up with friends old & new before the 9.30am services resume the next morning!
Festival of Meditation & Prayer
Opening Event: MEDITATION through MUSIC
Friday 3 September 7.30pm
Caritas Strings conducted by Hector Scott
Clarsach Chloe Young
Jubilo led by Walter Thomson
Organ John Willmett
Open to All
These meditations and a reception following this event launch the Festival.
FESTIVAL OF MEDITATION & PRAYER
September 2010
September 2010 will be a great start after the summer holidays! A month long series of activities has been planned. These will include guest speakers from the Reformed, Anglican, Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches. There will be a lecture, workshops, a pilgrimage, spaces for silence as well as music from Bach to Taize and on Doors Open Day our new book on the windows of Mayfield Salisbury will be launched with a signing by the author, Dr Elizabeth Cumming.
Mayfield Salisbury will be welcoming the Revd Dr Alison Jack (Church of Scotland), the Revd Dr Michael Fuller (Scottish Episcopal Church), the Very Revd David Lunan (Church of Scotland), the Revd Dr Sophia Marriage (Scottish Episcopal Church), Father Gerard Hughes (Roman Catholic Church) and Father Raphael Pavouris (Orthodox Church). We will also be welcoming a numbers of musicians and singers.
Our guests will be speaking on children’s spirituality, opera and faith, the spiritual journey, icons and visual theology and there will be many opportunities for prayer in and through music, meditation and silence.
The programme is in Grapevine and on the website, so think about how you can be participate in all that’s going on!
Our Speakers
During September we are delighted to welcome visiting preachers and speakers who bring with them the richness of the Episcopalian, Reformed Presbyterian, Roman Catholic and Orthodox traditions. They will develop individual themes that build up our understanding and develop our experience in meditation and prayer.Prayer in the New Testament will be the topic of the Revd Dr Alison Jack’s lecture on Sunday 5 September at 7.00pm. Alison Jack is Assistant Principal of New College and has a particular interest in the Bible and Literature in the parables.
On Sunday 12 September three visiting preachers lead our worship. At the 9.30am early service the Revd Dr Sophia Marriage of the Scottish Episcopal Church will develop the theme of Children’s Spirituality and lead the informal Communion service. The Very Revd David Lunan, Moderator of the Church of Scotland in 2008-09, will explore prayer with us at 10.45am and the Sacrament of Holy Communion will be served. At 7.00pm, our worship will take the form of a workshop led by Father Raphael Pavouris on icons or visual theology, with examples from the Orthodox Church.
Godly Play (for Adults) is the subject of Eilie Blackwood’s workshop on Sunday 19 September at 7.00pm. Eilie will look at an approach which presents sacred stories of the Bible, parables, silence and the liturgical actions of the church to encourage the individual’s innate spiritual awareness to respond with wonder and awe.
Father Gerard W Hughes is a Jesuit priest whose many books and related work on prayer have pushed back the barriers to exploring spirituality and enabled lay people to support each other. He will preach on Sunday 26 September at 10.45am.
Full details of all the events in September’s Festival of Meditation and Prayer are now available. Pick up a copy of the Festival Brochure in the Halls Entrance for information about our speakers, preachers, and musicians and when they will join us.
Download copy of Festival Brochure here: Festival Brochure
Arts and Faith support Meditation and Prayer
The connection between the arts and faith is a theme throughout the month.
The Festival opens on Friday 3 September with Meditation through Music when musicians and singers will introduce the themes of Meditation and Prayer. We are privileged to welcome Chloe Young on Clarsach, Caritas Strings with Hector Scott, John P Willmett playing the organ, and Walter Thomson with a group of singers from Jubilo.
On Wednesday 8 September at 7.30 pm the Revd Dr Michael Fuller will lecture on Opera and Faith, and at 7.00 pm on Sunday 12 September Father Raphael Pavouris will lead a workshop on visual theology, worshipping with icons.
Our glorious stained glass windows have been captured in a new publication The Mayfield Salisbury Windows Thy Story in Glass by Dr Elizabeth Cumming. This book will be launched on 25 September at 2.00 pm, during Doors Open Day (9.00 am to 5.00 pm) which provides an opportunity to explore the history and architecture of our buildings.
On Doors open Day there will also be organ music from Dr Revd Stuart Lawrie at 11.00 am and John P Willmett at 3.30 pm.
What’s the Reformation ever done for us?
A series of talks organised by Edinburgh Greenbank and Morningside Parish Churches with the support of the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh
Reformation lectures -Morningside, Sept-Oct 2010.pdf
• 12 September
The Reformation: From Europe to Scotland
Dr Susan Hardman Moore
• 19 September
The Social Policy of the Scottish
Churches Prof Jay Brown
• 26 September
The Kirk and Scottish Literature
Dr Alison Jack
• 3 October
Why we should be grateful to Luther,
Calvin and Knox
Dr Harry Reid
• 10 October
Singing the Reformation
Rev Douglas Galbraith
Sundays 7.00pm • Morningside Parish Church
Refreshments served from 6.30pm
